The satires and epistles of HoraceGinn, 1896 - 306 pages |
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... ancient literature . The style is always easy and graceful ; never forced nor affected . They must have been written at a dash , however much Horace may have trimmed them and filed them after- wards . They are never labored ...
... ancient literature . The style is always easy and graceful ; never forced nor affected . They must have been written at a dash , however much Horace may have trimmed them and filed them after- wards . They are never labored ...
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... ancient title seems to have been Sermones ( con- versations ) . See Introduction . SATIRE I. The main theme is Horace's favorite one , of avarice . As usual , however , he does not at once attack the theme directly , but comes to it ...
... ancient title seems to have been Sermones ( con- versations ) . See Introduction . SATIRE I. The main theme is Horace's favorite one , of avarice . As usual , however , he does not at once attack the theme directly , but comes to it ...
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... ancient times ) while anxiously watch- ing that no one shall see where . 66 43. quod si , etc .: the miser's reply ... ancients threshed their grain cession . - non tuus hoc capiet venter plus ac meus : ut 1. 23-45 . ] 5 HORATI SERMONES .
... ancient times ) while anxiously watch- ing that no one shall see where . 66 43. quod si , etc .: the miser's reply ... ancients threshed their grain cession . - non tuus hoc capiet venter plus ac meus : ut 1. 23-45 . ] 5 HORATI SERMONES .
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... ancient diet . 10. animi parvi , small - souled . II . respondet : i.e. se strin- gere , etc. , quod , etc. — his , this class ; illis , the other . 12. Fufidius , a usurer 13. Rejected by some editors . 14. quinas , i.e. fivefold . As ...
... ancient diet . 10. animi parvi , small - souled . II . respondet : i.e. se strin- gere , etc. , quod , etc. — his , this class ; illis , the other . 12. Fufidius , a usurer 13. Rejected by some editors . 14. quinas , i.e. fivefold . As ...
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... ancients were unacquainted with distillation , perfumes were conveyed in various vehicles , especially in oils , or , as here , in little cakes . — hircum , dirt and sweat . The word is very often used of the smell of the body in ...
... ancients were unacquainted with distillation , perfumes were conveyed in various vehicles , especially in oils , or , as here , in little cakes . — hircum , dirt and sweat . The word is very often used of the smell of the body in ...
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Page 187 - Vive, vale. Si quid novisti rectius istis Candidus imperti ; si non his utere mecum.
Page 275 - Natales grate numeras ? Ignoscis amicis ? Lenior et melior fis accedente senecta ? Quid te exempta levat spinis de pluribus una ? Vivere si recte nescis decede peritis. Lusisti satis, edisti satis atque bibisti : Tempus abire tibi est, ne potum largius aequo Rideat et pulset lasciva decentius aetas.
Page 299 - ... verum ubi plura nitent in carmine non ego paucis offendar maculis, quas aut incuria fudit aut humana parum cavit natura.
Page 162 - Quid verum atque decens euro et rogo, et omnis in hoc sum ; Condo et compono quae mox depromere possim. Ac ne forte roges, quo me duce, quo lare tuter : Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri, Quo me cumque rapit tempestas, deferor hospes.
Page 285 - Atque ita mentitur, sic veris falsa remiscet, Primo ne medium, medio ne discrepet imum. Tu quid ego et populus mecum desideret audi : Si plausoris eges aulaea manentis et usque Sessuri donec cantor ' Vos plaudite' dicat, Aetatis cujusque notandi sunt tibi mores, Mobilibusque decor naturis dandus et annis.
Page 297 - ... at haec animos aerugo et cura peculi 330 cum semel imbuerit, speramus carmina fingi posse linenda cedro et levi servanda cupresso ? aut prodesse volunt aut delectare poetae aut simul et iucunda et idonea dicere vitae.
Page 286 - Conversis studiis aetas animusque virilis quaerit opes et amicitias, inservit honori, commisisse cavet quod mox mutare laboret. Multa senem circumveniunt incommoda, vel quod quaerit et inventis miser abstinet ac timet uti, vel quod res omnes timide gelideque ministrat, dilator, spe longus, iners, avidusque futuri, difficilis, querulus, laudator temporis acti se puero, castigator censorque minorum.
Page 296 - Munus et officium nil scribens ipse docebo, Unde parentur opes, quid alat formetque poetam ; Quid deceat, quid non ; quo virtus, quo ferat error.
Page 170 - ... ad summam: sapiens uno minor est love, dives, liber, honoratus, pulcher, rex denique regum, praecipue sanus, nisi cum pituita molesta est.
Page 238 - Cum tot sustineas et tanta negotia solus, Res Italas armis tuteris, moribus ornes, Legibus emendes, in publica commoda peccem. Si longo sermone morer tua tempora, Caesar.